Richard Long 1945

Born and works in Britain

Small White Pebble Circles 1987

Marble pebbles

Since 1967 long has produced sculptures using natural materials which he collects during his long cross-country walks. Sometimes they are assembled in the same rural sites in which he finds the materials, sometimes he brings them inside the gallery spaces. Long has described the subject of his work as 'a balance between patterns of nature and the formalism of human abstract ideas, like lines and circles. it is where my human characteristics meet the natural forces and patterns of the world.'